linux-stable.git/net/core/sock.c, branch linux-3.17.y

net: fix skb_page_frag_refill() kerneldoc

2014-09-08T21:12:14+00:00

In commit d9b2938aabf7 ("net: attempt a single high order allocation)
I forgot to update kerneldoc, as @prio parameter was renamed to @gfp

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: treewide: Fix typo found in DocBook/networking.xml

2014-09-06T00:35:28+00:00

This patch fix spelling typo found in DocBook/networking.xml.
It is because the neworking.xml is generated from comments
in the source, I have to fix typo in comments within the source.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: attempt a single high order allocation

2014-08-30T03:28:23+00:00

In commit ed98df3361f0 ("net: use __GFP_NORETRY for high order
allocations") we tried to address one issue caused by order-3
allocations.

We still observe high latencies and system overhead in situations where
compaction is not successful.

Instead of trying order-3, order-2, and order-1, do a single order-3
best effort and immediately fallback to plain order-0.

This mimics slub strategy to fallback to slab min order if the high
order allocation used for performance failed.

Order-3 allocations give a performance boost only if they can be done
without recurring and expensive memory scan.

Quoting David :

The page allocator relies on synchronous (sync light) memory compaction
after direct reclaim for allocations that don't retry and deferred
compaction doesn't work with this strategy because the allocation order
is always decreasing from the previous failed attempt.

This means sync light compaction will always be encountered if memory
cannot be defragmented or reclaimed several times during the
skb_page_frag_refill() iteration.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-timestamp: TCP timestamping

2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00

TCP timestamping extends SO_TIMESTAMPING to bytestreams.

Bytestreams do not have a 1:1 relationship between send() buffers and
network packets. The feature interprets a send call on a bytestream as
a request for a timestamp for the last byte in that send() buffer.

The choice corresponds to a request for a timestamp when all bytes in
the buffer have been sent. That assumption depends on in-order kernel
transmission. This is the common case. That said, it is possible to
construct a traffic shaping tree that would result in reordering.
The guarantee is strong, then, but not ironclad.

This implementation supports send and sendpages (splice). GSO replaces
one large packet with multiple smaller packets. This patch also copies
the option into the correct smaller packet.

This patch does not yet support timestamping on data in an initial TCP
Fast Open SYN, because that takes a very different data path.

If ID generation in ee_data is enabled, bytestream timestamps return a
byte offset, instead of the packet counter for datagrams.

The implementation supports a single timestamp per packet. It silenty
replaces requests for previous timestamps. To avoid missing tstamps,
flush the tcp queue by disabling Nagle, cork and autocork. Missing
tstamps can be detected by offset when the ee_data ID is enabled.

Implementation details:

- On GSO, the timestamping code can be included in the main loop. I
moved it into its own loop to reduce the impact on the common case
to a single branch.

- To avoid leaking the absolute seqno to userspace, the offset
returned in ee_data must always be relative. It is an offset between
an skb and sk field. The first is always set (also for GSO & ACK).
The second must also never be uninitialized. Only allow the ID
option on sockets in the ESTABLISHED state, for which the seqno
is available. Never reset it to zero (instead, move it to the
current seqno when reenabling the option).

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams

2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00

Datagrams timestamped on transmission can coexist in the kernel stack
and be reordered in packet scheduling. When reading looped datagrams
from the socket error queue it is not always possible to unique
correlate looped data with original send() call (for application
level retransmits). Even if possible, it may be expensive and complex,
requiring packet inspection.

Introduce a data-independent ID mechanism to associate timestamps with
send calls. Pass an ID alongside the timestamp in field ee_data of
sock_extended_err.

The ID is a simple 32 bit unsigned int that is associated with the
socket and incremented on each send() call for which software tx
timestamp generation is enabled.

The feature is enabled only if SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID is set, to
avoid changing ee_data for existing applications that expect it 0.
The counter is reset each time the flag is reenabled. Reenabling
does not change the ID of already submitted data. It is possible
to receive out of order IDs if the timestamp stream is not quiesced
first.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags

2014-08-05T23:35:54+00:00

sk_flags is reaching its limit. New timestamping options will not fit.
Move all of them into a new field sk->sk_tsflags.

Added benefit is that this removes boilerplate code to convert between
SOF_TIMESTAMPING_.. and SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_.. in getsockopt/setsockopt.

SOCK_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE is also used to toggle the receive
timestamp logic (netstamp_needed). That can be simplified and this
last key removed, but will leave that for a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 

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The u16 in sock can be moved into a 16-bit hole below sk_gso_max_segs,
though that scatters tstamp fields throughout the struct.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: filter: simplify socket charging

2014-08-02T22:02:37+00:00

attaching bpf program to a socket involves multiple socket memory arithmetic,
since size of 'sk_filter' is changing when classic BPF is converted to eBPF.
Also common path of program creation has to deal with two ways of freeing
the memory.

Simplify the code by delaying socket charging until program is ready and
its size is known

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: remove deprecated syststamp timestamp

2014-07-29T18:39:50+00:00

The SO_TIMESTAMPING API defines three types of timestamps: software,
hardware in raw format (hwtstamp) and hardware converted to system
format (syststamp). The last has been deprecated in favor of combining
hwtstamp with a PTP clock driver. There are no active users in the
kernel.

The option was device driver dependent. If set, but without hardware
support, the correct behavior is to return zero in the relevant field
in the SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary message. Without device drivers
implementing the option, this field is effectively always zero.

Remove the internal plumbing to dissuage new drivers from implementing
the feature. Keep the SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SYS_HARDWARE flag, however, to
avoid breaking existing applications that request the timestamp.

Signed-off-by: Willem de Bruijn 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

sock: remove skb argument from sk_rcvqueues_full

2014-07-23T20:23:06+00:00

It hasn't been used since commit 0fd7bac(net: relax rcvbuf limits).

Signed-off-by: Sorin Dumitru 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

net: Split sk_no_check into sk_no_check_{rx,tx}

2014-05-23T20:28:53+00:00

Define separate fields in the sock structure for configuring disabling
checksums in both TX and RX-- sk_no_check_tx and sk_no_check_rx.
The SO_NO_CHECK socket option only affects sk_no_check_tx. Also,
removed UDP_CSUM_* defines since they are no longer necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller